Managing Director

**Location**: Singapore

**Department**: FinTech

**Make A Real Difference at PropertyGuru.**
**Real **Aspirations. **Real **People. **Real **impact.

At PropertyGuru Group, we believe that every person - no matter what their circumstance - should have a place to call home. That’s why we’ve been on a mission to transform how people find, finance, and own home across Southeast Asia over the last 13 years.

Voted by property seekers as “Asia’s Most Influential Brand for Online Property Search”, PropertyGuru enables real-world aspirations through digital transformation and constant innovation. Every day, the work that we do has a real and positive impact on thousands of lives.

PropertyGuru, Southeast Asia’s leading online property group, has embarked on a journey to fundamentally reshape how people in Southeast Asia finance their homes, launching PropertyGuru Finance in SG last year. The vision is to make home financing transparent and friction-free. As part of that vision, we aspire to become Singapore’s leading mortgage marketplace in the coming 3 years. We will pursue that aspiration through a buy-build strategy in which we will combine existing operations with targeted acquisitions, best-in-class partners, and in-house-built cutting-edge technology. We’re effectively driving a Fintech start-up within PropertyGuru Group.

As an employee, you’ll be empowered by our community work culture, where everyone has the autonomy, support, and resources to do the best work of their careers. As we evolve our journey to help people make confident property decisions, we stay true to our core values to guide the way we work and the decisions we make every step of the way: we own it and deliver it, we have fun and celebrate success, we respect and care for each other, we push beyond good, and we create what’s next.

**Responsibilities**:
PropertyGuru is focused on building Southeast Asia’s ‘Property Trust Platform’, digitally integrating the real estate ecosystem towards more transparency and enhanced efficiencies. To get there, we organized ourselves along three business units: Marketplaces, Fintech and Data and Software Solutions (DSS). Our ability to deliver on our goals is dependent on the success of each of these three BUs. It is also a function of our ability to define and capture the synergies between these businesses and to amalgamate their individual path to a story that unites the (PropertyGuru) Group overall. The MD of Fintech will play a determining role in each.

Where ‘PropertyGuru Marketplaces’ helps buyers and sellers of properties engage in a transaction, ‘Fintech’ looks at the home as a financial asset. Its mission is to help Southeast Asians optimize their wealth from gaining access to property finance and from leveraging its property ownership for optimal wealth creation.
‘Fintech’ has made successful progress towards building a mortgage advisory business in Singapore: ‘PropertyGuru Finance’. The business launched in March 2020 and has closed more than s$2Billion worth of mortgages to date. There’s about 45FTE in the team with an objective to become Southeast Asia’s trusted financial services managed marketplace.

The Managing Director Fintech’s prime tasks will be to:

- Define the Fintech BU vision and deliver the strategy.
- Define and execute go-to-market models tailored to each market’s unique business environment.
Manage the P&L towards achieving growth and bottom-line objectives, including leadership of high-performance teams.
- Drive relevant M&A, if appropriate; Lead Post-Merger Integration to realise synergies.

As MD Fintech, you will:

- Define the vision and deliver BU Fintech strategy across Southeast Asia
- Understand consumer, customer and partner insights
- Set vision and strategic roadmap
Work with GLT and company Board to secure continued investment buy-in
- Provide clarity and visibility internally and externally about ‘Fintech’s’ aspirations and strategy
- Partner with fellow GLTs to define and deliver Group aspiration towards Southeast Asia’s property trust platform
- Define and execute go-to-market models
- Draw-up business cases and market-entry models that navigate PropertyGuru’s path to market
Translate expansion plans into operational priorities
- Manage the P&L towards high growth and bottom-line objectives
- Build a high-growth culture with an ROI (return on investment) mindset
- Manage all aspects of business delivery, including Strategy, Product, Marketing, Engineering, Operations, etc.
Identify and negotiate critical partnerships with regulators, financial services companies, Fintechs, etc
- Drive relevant M&A and be accountable to Post-Merger Integration (PMI)
Have an overview of the Southeast Asian / global Fintech landscape
- Be visible as a Fintech thought leader
- Create M&A target list and build personal relations with prospects
- Drive M&A process internally, from target lists to execution
- Partner with